AstraZeneca, Daiichi Sankyo Enter $6-Bn Pact for Antibody Drug Conjugate
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AstraZeneca has entered into a global development and commercialization agreement with Daiichi Sankyo, in a deal worth up to $6 billion, for DS-1062, Daiichi Sankyo’s antibody drug conjugate (ADC) for…

Pharma COVID Roundup: News from AstraZeneca, CanSino, Celltrion
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The latest on manufacturing and potential treatments for COVID-19 with news from AstraZeneca, CanSino Biologics, CGT Catapult, Bharat Biotech, and Celltrion. AstraZeneca Reports Promising Early-Trial Results of COVID-19 VaccineAstraZeneca reports…

GSK, CureVac in $1.1-Bn Pact for mRNA Vaccines and mAbs
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GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and CureVac, a Tubingen, Germany-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) therapeutics, have signed a strategic collaboration agreement, in a deal worth up to £866…

Pfizer, BioNTech in $1.95-Bn Deal with US Gov’t for COVID-19 Vaccine
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Pfizer and BioNTech, a Mainz, Germany-based immunotherapy company, have entered an agreement with the US Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense, in a deal worth…

Global Pharma Briefs: News from Europe and the US
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A roundup of news from Switzerland (BI, Numab Therapeutics) and the US (Bayer, Elanco, Mylan, Merck & Co, Dewpoint Therapeutics, and Nephron Pharmaceuticals). Switzerland BI, Numab Therapeutics in Pact for…

Roche, Blueprint in $1.7-Bn Deal for Targeted Cancer Drugs
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Roche and Blueprint Medicines, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biopharmaceutical company, have signed a licensing and collaboration agreement, in a deal worth up to $1.7 billion, to develop and commercialize pralsetinib, an…

Blackstone Launches $4.6-Bn Life Sciences Fund
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Blackstone, a private investment firm, has closed on its first fund in the life sciences, Blackstone Life Sciences, with $4.6 billion in total capital commitments. The fund is focused on…

Pharma Companies in Pact To Invest $1 Bn in AMR Action Fund
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More than 20 biopharmaceutical companies have announced their participation in the AMR Action Fund to support research of new antibiotics to address the rise of antibiotic-resistant infections, also called antimicrobial…

Sanofi, Kymera in $2.15-Bn Pact to Advance Protein-Degrader Therapies
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Sanofi and Kymera Therapeutics, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biopharmaceutical company, have entered into a multi-program strategic collaboration to develop and commercialize protein-degrader therapies for immune-inflammatory diseases, in a deal worth up…

Sanofi, Kiadis in $996-M Deal for Natural-Killer Cancer Programs
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Sanofi and Kiadis Pharma, an Amsterdam-based clinical-stage company developing therapeutics based on natural killer (NK) cells, have entered into an exclusive license agreement, in a deal worth up to EUR…